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• joint venture
  joint venture

  noun

  a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. JV, J.V.
• joint-venture
  joint-venture

  verb (used without object)

  to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

joint venture

¹ American  

noun

• joint ventures
  plural

1. a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. JV, J.V.

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joint-venture ² American  

[joint-ven-cher] / ˈdʒɔɪntˈvɛn tʃər /

verb (used without object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

1. to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

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verb (used with object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

1. to establish or run as a joint venture.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• joint venturer
  noun
• joint venturing
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• joint ventures
  plural

Etymology

Origin of joint-venture

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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“The ownership change was made in consideration of market changes since the joint venture was announced—including the slower-than-expected growth of EV demand,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Bloomberg on Monday reported that Cohen is now “considering proposing a partnership or joint venture that would enable eBay to leverage GameStop’s roughly 1,600 U.S. retail locations.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Wisk got its start as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp. and has flown six generations of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Wisk launched in 2019 as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp., but the technology behind it had been under development for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

When the goods are sold or the project is finished, the joint venture ends.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

FICO’s main competition in mortgage scoring is the VantageScore, a joint-venture of credit bureaus Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Intel investors have been reacting positively to its recent announcement of a change to a joint-venture arrangement — and another a similar catalyst may be on the horizon.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro NHY -3.14%decrease; red down pointing triangle said its Qatari smelter is shutting down after its joint-venture partner stopped supplying gas amid attacks from Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Some German officials say they might even support requirements for Chinese direct investors in Europe to share their intellectual property with local joint-venture partners—a rule that applied for decades to foreign manufacturers in China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Outside of oil, China has at least one known joint-venture deal called Arco Minero, but given Venezuela as-is now, I’d say they can have it.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026